Authors : Vasili V. Lipich, Tamara I. Lipich, Elena N. Motovnikova, Pavel A. Olkhov, Vitali V. Penskoy and Svetlana I. Shatokhina
Abstract: The study is dedicated to investigation of one of the cross-cutting issues of the European and, in particular, Russian social idea of the 19th century its national-cultural identity. The contribution made in this history of this issue by the half-remembered or interpreted with some Universalist enhancement A. Grigoriev and N. Strakhov. In this regard, the researchers pay special attention to the methods and methodological approaches of the comparative-historical analysis and the literature-philosophical hermeneutics, contextual and situational-event-driven analysis (case studies). In the course of the study, performed by the researchers, it was established that the issue of the national-cultural identity in the Russian social idea of the 19th century cannot be represented in the conceptually completed form in a diagram or universalistic form. The statement of this question and searches for the answers to it during the 19th century were distinguished through wide variety. Within this variety special attention shall be paid to the mean line developed as the literature-philosophical criticism by the nationalists (‘essentialists’) A. Grigoriev and N. Strakhov who raised this question and proposed to solve it from the perspective of the mystical-Christian understanding of the spiritual fundamentals of the historical behavior and historical relationships between the nations. Thereby the tradition of the integral social thinking hermeneutics-responsive, rational and free was established. The researchers of the study believe that such understanding of the issues of the national-cultural identity is quite topical not only within the history of the social idea but also within the modern perplexed global world that requires updating the theoretical grounds, the new theoretical vitality.
Vasili V. Lipich, Tamara I. Lipich, Elena N. Motovnikova, Pavel A. Olkhov, Vitali V. Penskoy and Svetlana I. Shatokhina, 2015. National Culture: On the Hermeneutical Contours of “Fateful Question” in Russia. The Social Sciences, 10: 1269-1272.